“What Do We Know about Human Rights? is the book I wish I had when I started graduate school! In a very accessible way, the volume provides budding (or seasoned) readers with the current state of academic research in so many areas related to human rights. Each chapter gives readers the must-knows about existing research and provides them with a blueprint for adding to this important conversation. I highly recommend it for all undergraduate and graduate classrooms.“

Amanda Murdie, Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

"What Do We Know about Human Rights? takes stock of a field that has grown enormously in scope and sophistication over the past three decades. Haglund and Hillebrecht have assembled a genuinely comprehensive map of the empirical human rights literature, from the drivers of repression to the mechanisms of protection and repair, that will be indispensable for graduate seminars and a welcome refresher for established scholars alike."

Courtenay R. Monroe, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced, USA

"What Do We Know about Human Rights will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of human rights. The contributors to the volume review and assess the central clusters of research on human rights, evaluate the theoretical and empirical tools for studying international human rights, and look ahead to emerging challenges. Scholars will find in the book ideas and directions for further advances and students will appreciate it as a comprehensive assessment, both broad and deep, of the field.”

Wayne Sandholtz, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Law, University of Southern California, USA